Hi Sylvain,

>If the field Country does exist in the destination table, VFP will only test the first record from the original table and append no or all records depending if the first record match the condition.

I have not experienced that! When I have run APPEND FROM with a FOR clause, it has worked correctly. For example, I used the following code to create a cursor of the Procedure/Function and Parameter statements from one of my procedure files:

CREATE CURSOR Prg (Line C(254))
APPEND FROM Mc_procs.Prg TYPE SDF ;
FOR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="PROC" ;
OR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="FUNC" ;
OR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="LPAR" ;
OR UPPER(LEFT(ALLTRIM(prg.line),4))=="PARA"

Perhaps using a cursor as the destination or the TYPE SDF has some effect, I don't know. Do you name the destination alias in the FOR clause that fails?? (BTW, I got help creating this code from Christof Lange)